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Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

January 24, 2021March 21, 2022by helixmedicalLeave a comment

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

January 24, 2021March 21, 2022by helixmedicalLeave a comment

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

January 24, 2021March 21, 2022by helixmedicalLeave a comment

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

A Beginning

February 12, 2020by helixmedical2 Comments

By Nolan Pokpongkiat

I started Helix in summer 2017 with a group of six friends. Now, in 2020, it’s grown into a 25-big undergraduate student organization that puts on a hands-on healthcare summer program for high school students around the Bay Area.

Starting Helix was, no doubt, one of the most exciting, sleepless, and fulfilling experiences of my college career. Two years ago, in the summer of 2017 following my freshman year, I was looking for a way to quench a couple of internal desires: to be in control of something, and to be proud of something amazing I created. Although in retrospect it sounds like I was interested in entrepreneurship, I honestly didn’t know what startups were at that time. The only major experience I had under my belt at this time was being in leadership in high school marching band, so the thing I was most comfortable with was student organizations —naturally, I gravitated towards the idea of starting a student organization. Throughout my freshman year, I had seen a handful of other health-oriented clubs that I was interested in—but at this point in time, I was obsessed with visual appeal and professional brand, so I found myself turning away from these clubs before even giving them a shot, just because they didn’t look polished. This isn’t to say those clubs didn’t do meaningful work—not at all—the student organizations at Berkeley do amazing things. Rather, it’s a highlight of my obsession with outward presentation that I’ve recently begun to realize isn’t always as important.

Having finished my first year at Berkeley, I was determined to create a new health-oriented student organization. One that did both impactful work and marketed itself well. I began to brainstorm ideas at the intersection of 1) things that undergrads had the skill do to, 2) things that benefited society positively, and 3) things that undergrads would consider something worth doing, in that order of importance. I also knew I didn’t want to, and definitely couldn’t do it alone, so I asked a few of my friends to join me: Jeff, Brian, Dais, and Maddie. At one point, we were almost set on this new club being the go-to community health screening organizer for the Bay Area; we were going to recruit a ton of doctors to man a whole bunch of different specialties and we’d train students to help people with public health resources and help people apply for Covered California.

But, long story short, we rethought the project and found motivations that were closer to our own experiences: Jeff had experience working in the healthcare environment as an EMT where he saw a problem of lack of diversity, and Maddie and I had experience in education initiatives. Combining that with the catalyst of UCSF Summer Science Camp (more on that later), we decided to start an organization that would provide hands-on exploration of a career in healthcare, geared at high-school students coming from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

The next two years is a story of friendship, desperation, mental health, a ****load of mistakes, and thankfully, some self-reflection & (hopefully) personal growth.

See the original article here